The Role Responsibilities
Trade & Working Capital is an integral part of the Bank’s DNA. As a network-driven Trade bank, we support vast international trading networks across a large range of commodities, markets, and specialisms – helping millions of people, clients and businesses achieve their financial aspirations. Our uniqueness is our distinctive network that stretches across core emerging markets with onshore Trade solutions in 42 markets across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and beyond.
Trade & Working Capital, within Transaction Banking, is grounded in the Bank’s strategic priorities through delivering customer value, driving productivity, optimizing cost efficiencies, facilitating #simplefasterbetter, and living the valued behaviours. In addition, we have set an ambitious strategy to grow the Trade & Working Capital franchise to a US$2 billion and beyond business.
To get things done faster to support this growth, a core team of product managers serving as Product Initiatives Leads for Trade will, on a rolling basis, drive selected high-impact and high-visibility group or regional initiative(s) under Trade’s core priorities that will help move the needle in reaching our Trade goals. This role requires an individual with a ‘can-do’ attitude to support the Product Initiative Leads for the end-to-end execution and commercialization of Trade initiatives, and when the time comes, to also lead selected initiatives. Ability to collaborate with other stakeholders is essential, as the team works closely with key stakeholders within the bank, from Global/Regional Trade product heads, to RFOs, to key counterparts from Sales and Operations teams.
We are looking for an individual who can operate in new (often ambiguous) areas, can provide critical thinking, problem solving and drive execution of the product initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Work closely to support Product Initiative Leads to deliver an end-to-end solution for each Trade initiative, including establishing a strategy, business case, address Trade product specific nuances, execution plan and actual execution of agreed scope of initiatives
- Apply a “client-first” lens while considering speed to value, time-to-market and cost-benefit trade offs
- Able to think holistically, thoroughly, and strategically in order to support the team in defining the project scope, system/process/people requirements & work with the lead product manager and frontline teams to deliver commercial outcomes.
- Assist in requirements/scoping, end-to-end product & process flows, interface requirements, risk impacts, and clearly articulate these flows and processes to the relevant stakeholders
- Engage and work with various stakeholders within the team, and outside the team
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
- Global Head, Trade & Working Capital
- Head, Trade Initiatives & Business Enablement
- Global Trade Product Heads
- Head, Trade Product Development
- Regional Trade Product Heads
- TB Business Change & Enablement
- TB Sales
- Trade COO
- Trade CIO
- Group Process owners
- Functional Partners including TB Risk, CFCC, HR, Finance, Legal, GIA
Our Ideal Candidate
- Trade product knowledge, with past experience in Trade product management or sales a strong plus (Documentary Trade (LCs, Guarantees, Collections), Receivables Finance, Supplier Finance etc.)
- 3+ years experience in banking or management consulting firm.
- Project management experience is a plus
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office - Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
- A team player: multi-culturally aware with a proven ability to work in a global service delivery model, with onshore and offshore resources.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; data analysis and ability to steer through ambiguity and determine proper course or methodology without direction or supervision.
- Solid organizational skills and ability to produce clear, concise, relevant and accurate documentation based on captured requirements and information gathered from stakeholders
- Excellent time management and organizational skills; the ability to manage conflicting priorities and multi-task effectively; and communicate current status and tasks to management.
- Ability to prioritise issues within a large, rapidly changing environment and manage a wide variety/ high volume of tasks while maintaining quality delivery.
- A results-driven professional. Takes ownership to deliver, with a high level of flexibility and a preparedness to ‘roll up his/ her sleeves’ to get the job done. Proven success in holding individuals accountable for progress against agreed deliverables.
- A proven ability to work independently, solve problems and make balanced judgments / decisions
- Confident and courageous to raise/ escalate issues in a pro-active, professional, and timely manner
- Demonstrates understanding of and commitment to the Group’s core values
- Willingness to Travel as required
- Licences and Certifications/ accreditations: CDCS, CTFP, GTC, PMP, ACP, or related Trade or Project Management a strong plus
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Trade Finance products
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Communications (including MS PowerPoint)
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
- Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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